film friday: "Lighthouse Keeper" speed edit

"Lighthouse Keeper" Speed Edit from Lauren Parker on Vimeo.

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Here's the latest image from my art retreat weekend, plus a speed edit video for this week's film friday. I always enjoy when photographers post these types of videos. It's interesting to see the process (or when they mess up like me and can't actually edit out pieces of clothing, haha), especially if it's different from how you do it.

Have a wonderful weekend!

I'm walking on sunshine

dress/tights: forever 21 // shirt/cardigan/shoes: thrifted // jacket: from a friend // glasses: firmoo.com




The purple hair is back! Thank goodness too. I didn't realize how much I missed it until my hair became purple again. It may be absolutely ridiculous to have purple hair, but I think it's fun and just my style, and what better time to do it in life than in college? (Though, who's to say I can't have it when I'm older?) I've worn an outfit similar to this one in the past, but I love the way the blue in the shirt sort of matches my hair, and the yellow contrasts it nicely. It's fun to see how clothes look with purple hair as opposed to brown hair. Though I am a firm believer that nearly all colors go together, some go better than others and I like awesome color combinations with purple. Yellow seems to be working pretty good here!




I also really wanted to match with my surroundings, so I found some yellow trees and took these photos. Of course, being right next to a fairly active street isn't very fun. I actually had one guy honk his horn while his buddy waved to me as they drove by. Kind of creepy, and in my shock I did nothing but wave back. The scene in my head, of Lauren with fear in her eyes just waving in front of the camera, is really funny now, but man was it weird when it happened. Oh the things we do for a good background.




Well, I hope you have a really wonderful day! Despite the title of this post, there's a ton of rain scheduled, but I'm gonna make the most of it. It's gonna be a good day.

empty corridors

dress: handmade // shirt/tights: forever 21 // shoes: thrifted + diy // photos taken by Matt






I suppose this is a kind of teaser outfit for my dress that I made over the summer. For the past two years I've made it my summer project to put together at least one dress, which is really fun and super stressful when I use a pattern. Maybe this upcoming summer I'll feel confident enough to create a piece without a pattern! This dress in particular has a really fun multicolored camera print for the shirt portion that I never got a photo of before the weather turned cold. So in order to stay warm and thus leave you guessing about how this dress looks all by itself, I layered a nice sweater over the colorful print. But don't worry people, you'll eventually be able to see this dress in all of its glory.






In other news, nothing really exciting is going on, just a lot of school work. I also like to take on other extra projects that people give me, so I'm doing a lot of side work and building my portfolio with some client photography and design. Busy busy!

Hope you have a wonderful day!

october photos

"beach couple"

models: two lovely strangers



"earthmaker"

model: Spencer
assistants: Ben and Harrison



"a sailing waltz"

model: Megan



"lighthouse keeper"

model: Megan

Thanks to the Art Retreat, I got to create a lot of photos for the month of October. There are still more that I want to publish on the internet, so we will see if I remember that they exist at a time when I can/want to work on them (you know how that goes). But for October, I'd say it was a pretty successful month.

january/february // march // april // may // june // july // august // september